I dont think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, but we really didnt achieve that much even at that time.
ALAN CRANSTONUnless you have a sense of values that’s shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values.
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Unprecedented warnings by officials most closely linked with nuclear arms negotiations and defense strategy indicate that we are running out of time.
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Its operation in a world beset by fuel and energy crises makes no sense at all.
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There’s a very simple reason for focusing on the nuclear issue. Many, many issues are of supreme importance in one way or another, but if we blow ourselves up with nuclear weapons, no other issue is really going to matter.
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I don’t think there’s any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done.
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There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time.
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Unless you have a sense of values that’s shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values.
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I believe. France and Germany and Japan, China, other nations, they’re going to exist. But they’re losing their significance and ability to deal with certain matters.
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Having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.
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The explosion of a terrorist’s single nuclear device in a major metropolitan center would trigger an unparalleled humanitarian and environmental disaster.
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If we fail to act soon, the scars of a major nuclear disaster will mark our immediate and distant future.
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An accidental military launch of multiple warheads could result in a worldwide nuclear holocaust.
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Quite possibly there would be no other human beings left to be concerned about anything else.
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The probability of a fatal nuclear detonation is greater now than at any time during the Cold War.
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As the Russian military deteriorates, and as rogue governments and terrorists seek to acquire nuclear capabilities, the threat continues to grow.
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You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world.
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